When Mental Patients Are Required to Give Their Informed Consent

question 157

Multiple Choice

When mental patients are required to give their informed consent before they can be given drugs or other treatments, which kind of patients are most likely to refuse?

• A) those who have already taken such drugs in the past
• B) those who have only slight problems and who have a good chance of dealing with the problems without drugs
• C) those who are well acquainted with the statistics on the probability of success if they take the drugs
• D) those with the greatest hostility, emotional withdrawal, and disorganized thinking

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Definitions:

Electronically

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Mandatory

Required or obligatory, implying that it must be done or adhered to without choice.

Stop-payment Order

A request made to a bank by an account holder not to pay out on a check or payment that has been issued but not yet processed.

Reimburse

To pay back or compensate someone for expenses they have incurred.